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XIII
XIII
To His Brother Quintus (in the Country)
Rome, February, 54 B.C.
Your note by its strong language has drawn out this letter. For as to
what actually occurred on the day of your start, it supplied me with
absolutely no subject for writing. But as when we are together we are never at
a loss for something to say, so ought our letters at times to digress into
loose chat. Well, then, to begin, the liberty of the Tenedians has received
short shrift, no one speaking for them except myself, Bibulus, Calidius, and
Favonius. A complimentary reference to you was made by the legates from
Magnesia and Sipylum, they saying that you were the man who alone had resisted
the demand of L. Sestius Pansa. On the remaining days of this business in the
senate, if anything occurs which you ought to know, or even if there is
nothing, I will write you something every day. On the 12th I will not fail you
or Pomponius. The poems of Lucretius are as you say - with many flashes of
genius, yet very technical. But when you return,...if you succeed in reading
the Empedoclea of Sallustius, I shall regard you as a hero, yet scarcely
human.
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